In Chinese medicine, emotional disharmony is considered to be a major etiological factor in internal disease. Whereas Western medicine tends to consider the influence of emotions on the organs as being a secondary, aggravating factor regarding disease causation, Chinese medicine views the emotions as an integral, and inseparable, part of the sphere of action of the internal organs that serve as direct disease-causation factors.
In Chinese medicine, the internal organs are viewed as physical–mental–emotional spheres of influence with the physical, mental and emotional spheres being a fully integrated whole for which the internal organs serve as a major organizing nuclei.
A central concept of Chinese medicine is that particular aspects of the soul concentrate in specific organs. For instance, the Ethereal Soul (Hun; the aspect of the soul that returns to the spirit world after death) is associated with the liver and the Corporeal Soul (Po; the aspect of the soul that returns to the Earth after death), is associated with the lungs, Willpower (Zhi) with the kidneys, Intellect (Yi) with the spleen/pancreas, and Consciousness itself (Shen) with the heart.
During the class, Dr. Berkowksy discusses the 5 soul components described in Chinese medicine and their specific organ associations. Then, he demonstrates how you can create very interesting Spiritual PhytoEssencing essential oil blends to balance the incarnated soul energies within your body and, vis a vis these blends, support homeostasis among the internal organs and the harmony of both chi (vital force) and blood.
